Indeed!
You are able to drop more than 1 beatgrid on a track.
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Indeed!
You are able to drop more than 1 beatgrid on a track.
Complete - I'm at work now and can't see the vid. I'll check it out later.
Does the vid show a song that has varying BPM's throughout and the actual BPM changes while the song is being played? Lets say a song that is a transition song and goes from 128 to 108 with a funky remix in the middle. Does the end of the song play and show 108 after it started at 128?
Also another thing about the waveforms is that with the colors it makes it MUCH easier to grid a song. I've had songs in Traktor that end up gridded on snare while others on a beat. With Itch you can line them up on the red wave and thats it. You don't even have to listen to the song to determine where the grid goes.
I hear ya Rob. Trying to fair as well. This is one area Traktor needs to improve. Just as Itch needs to improve its Effects.
I haven't seen the video, but this is what the first line says on the link:
"Traktor can only have one BPM per song so that means that you can only automatically sync one of the 2 loops if they were set at different BPMS. For example in this video the outro loop was 94 bpm and the intro was 89. For this reason I recommend you set the BPM of the song to match your outro loop and manually beat match the intro loop"
In Itch your song will start in 94 and end in 89.
+1 to what rob said
itch is deceptively simple in appearance but once you start using it, for me at least the work flow just feels unhindered.
best solution to itchs bad fx = get a v7.
the bpm, as a numeric display in traktor, is and remains static as it creates a graphical overlay to the song
however, he demonstrates the ability to change the overlay to suit the dynamic bpm throughout a song (in this case, a led zep vocal breakdown), and create a loop point at this slow down
so the bpm counter changes in serato... traktor allows you to work around a change in the song and create a grid to suit. it would require a little more work to account for many changes in bpm (which really doesnt happen that often) but you still have the ability to preplan for cue juggling with changes in bpm / tempo
CJ,
I'll have to check out the vid tonight because not having flexible grids in traktor and it being a static overlay is one of the draw backs -- sounds like this could be a "work around". It really makes it easy in Itch just to drop a new grid maker and change the grid from there on out, with the previous portion going unchanged. You could do this as many times anywhere on the grid. Its' VERY user friendly and provides much more than merely changing the BPM. It's just plain'ol easy. You can grid in a song in just a few seconds. If traktor would have this option it would REALLY get this close to Ableton "warping" (which is the style of play i feel the S4 is to blend with). I use Itch and have an S4 on pre-order (used to have a VCI-100), so I hope to give an unbias opinion on both products and this is the one area Itch beats Traktor hands down. S4, I think wins everywere else.
Either way, thanks for posting this up. I'll have to check it out tonight.
I think workflow is more of a personal preference thing when it comes to software...
I can appreciate the points/opinions made/expressed by Robtronik, but there's no denying that the Traktor workflow just works for some of us. The three mentioned "fundamentals" aren't really the same as mine... oddly enough, one of my fundamental requirements was "spinning platters", but that went out the window after watching Clenz Roc's S4 video. I let the NS7 stew for a bit, but wasn't feeling it after a while... I'll probably let the S4 stew for a bit, until I read the first round of comments/impressions on November 2nd.
Point is... Louie Vega could look at my studio rig and say it's all wrong... then quickly realize that I'm not the one with the hat ;)
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Call me crazy, but I would say if he came from a TT background get Serato and a SL3. TSP is cool and it works.
My biggest problem with Traktor is the beatgrids and fx's. the beatgrids drift on my tracks...yes i dont play EDM so i usually dont get the 4/4 beats. So when I hit the beatmasher or delay it sounds like poo sometimes.
Serato works, fx are sweet, echo fade is spot on, midi is starting to grow.
Sorry, I love Traktor, but Im secretly cheating on her with Serato.